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Noam chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today new york times. Bruce hoffman born 1954 is a political analyst specializing in the study of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency he is a tenured professor at georgetown universitys edmund a. Hoffman dissects terrorism past and present, charting its evolution and predicting where it might be. Terrorism in the united states appears to have been first issued under this title in 1987. The author of four books on terrorism including the longest war, a succinct but wideangled look at sept. In this revised third edition of his classic text, hoffman analyzes the latest developments in global terrorism, offering insight into new adversaries, motivations. Interestingly, some of the best books on both terrorism and counterterrorism predate 911 and were written before counterterrorism became the cottage industry it is today. The editors and several of the authors write from practical field experience in the nations war on terrorism. He tries to give the reader a panoramic view of how terrorism has evolved over time from the old models of terrorism to so called new models and how new terrorism has built off old terrorism.
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